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A Covenant with Colour – Race & Social Power in Brooklyn: Race and Social Power in Brooklyn, 1636-1990 (The Columbia History of Urban Life) - Hardcover
In this social history of Brooklyn, Craig Steven Wilder contends that power relations are the starting point for understanding the area's turbulent racial dynamics. He explores the evolution of the Brooklyn ghetto and uses Brooklyn as a lens through which to view larger issues in America.
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"Readers, casual students and scholars alike will surely benefit from his compilation of sources and his well-articulated interpretation of the power of race in shaping social and economic conditions in Brooklyn over three centuries." -- "Choice"
"A major contribution to the history of race... Wilder's stylish and inventive book stands out." -- "American Historical Review"
"Fills a real gap in the social history of American cities.... Appealing for its deft interweaving of personal with broadly demographic data and for Wilder's unusually compelling narrative style." -- "Journal of Social History"
"A major contribution to the history of race... Wilder's stylish and inventive book stands out." -- American Historical Review
"Fills a real gap in the social history of American cities.... Appealing for its deft interweaving of personal with broadly demographic data and for Wilder's unusually compelling narrative style." -- Journal of Social History
"Readers, casual students and scholars alike will surely benefit from his compilation of sources and his well-articulated interpretation of the power of race in shaping social and economic conditions in Brooklyn over three centuries." -- Choice
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"A major contribution to the history of race... Wilder's stylish and inventive book stands out." -- "American Historical Review"
"Fills a real gap in the social history of American cities.... Appealing for its deft interweaving of personal with broadly demographic data and for Wilder's unusually compelling narrative style." -- "Journal of Social History"
"A major contribution to the history of race... Wilder's stylish and inventive book stands out." -- American Historical Review
"Fills a real gap in the social history of American cities.... Appealing for its deft interweaving of personal with broadly demographic data and for Wilder's unusually compelling narrative style." -- Journal of Social History
"Readers, casual students and scholars alike will surely benefit from his compilation of sources and his well-articulated interpretation of the power of race in shaping social and economic conditions in Brooklyn over three centuries." -- Choice
"A major contribution to the history of race... Wilder's stylish and inventive book stands out." -- "American Historical Review"
"Fills a real gap in the social history of American cities.... Appealing for its deft interweaving of personal with broadly demographic data and for Wilder's unusually compelling narrative style." -- "Journal of Social History"
"Readers, casual students and scholars alike will surely benefit from his compilation of sources and his well-articulated interpretation of the power of race in shaping social and economic conditions in Brooklyn over three centuries." -- "Choice"
"Powerfully demonstrates the persistence and pervasiveness of race." -- Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua, "Journal of American History"
Craig Steven Wilder is assistant professor of history and chair of African American Studies at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. He was born and raised in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, where he continues to reside during part of the year.
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- PublisherColumbia University Press
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0231119062
- ISBN 13 9780231119061
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages340
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A Covenant with Color: Race and Social Power in Brooklyn
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ISBN 10: 0231119062
ISBN 13: 9780231119061
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